Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively

The Written Garden

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 7^th Nov 2017, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 7^th Apr 2021, 02:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Penelope Lively's intimate meditation on gardening, literature and creativity continues as she turns her attention to the garden in fiction.

Read by Stephanie Cole.

Penelope Lively uses the garden to break open the world for us, and examines how we might encourage our lives to bloom.

Abridged by Siân Preece

Producer: Eilidh McCreadie.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. Show less